(02-08-2023 01:00 AM)BDB5yp Wrote:  How come they only post the post game interview when we lose? LOL.

They only post the post game interview when we play at home.

(02-08-2023 07:48 AM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(02-07-2023 11:34 PM)Big Red Wrote:  

(02-07-2023 10:27 PM)NIUfilmmaker Wrote:  NIU hung in there. We were just a bit off tonight, sucks, but still have a good feeling for the rest of conference play.

Agreed. There were a lot of little things that would have changed the outcome. Ultimately, when I heard the announcers talking about how Ohio hadn't won a road game in like 2 months...we were doomed.

It's funny how that stuff happens. We were hot and almost due for a dud of a game. They were cold (on the road at least) and were almost due for a good game.

Ohio played hard. I wouldn't say they were all that great. They did knock down almost all of their FTs the last 7 or 8 minutes of the game, which definitely helped keep NIU from cutting beyond that 6 point deficit until the very end.

And Wilson was fine but not impossible to defend. He's a really strong guy and really his main thing is pushing his way to the basket. He makes his share of mess-ups with the ball (a couple of bad travels with the ball in the paint). Ibarguen was a bit exposed against him since Konan is big but lacking experience (and possibly a little banged up still from the myriad of injuries he's had this year) and Durosinmi is almost useless because the second he gets in the game...he's got like 3 fouls and then they either have to go back to Ibarguen or buy some minutes with Crump. As much as I wasn't sorry to see either of them go, it'd have been nice to have kept a guy like Makuoi on the roster just for competent depth. Btw, Makuoi is having a decent year at Tennessee State averaging 23 minutes a game and 9.4 points. He's been better than Kueth at TSU (or UTS or whatever they go by).

Btw, as I was watching, there was a face on the bench that didn't look familiar to me. And I kind of forgot about it until I was just now looking at sports-reference and NIU's roster and there's a name there I've never seen.

Steven Tipton

6'2" Guard

No stats

I looked at the NIU roster on the website and he's not listed and no profile on Verbal Commits. So, I googled and barely came up with anything other than a twitter account, but I think he's from Wisconsin (Brookfield Central HS).

No idea who this is but he must be a walk-on.

I am sure he is a walk on body just in case anybody else gets injured. Also looking at his stats from Brookfield Central, he went from 5'10" in 20-21 to 6'2" in 21-22. He was rewarded with that growth spurt by playing 5 minutes in the 20-21season to 7 minutes in the 21-22 season.

It would be better if his name was Steven Tip-in.

Yup. The way this team plays, they can always use another guard to run, run, run, in practice and with both Williams and Russell missing significant time, bringing in a runner was logical.

Live by the 3, die by the 3! We won't win too many games going 5-19.
I will give Ohio their due, they had a great defensive scheme. Put 3 guys out on the perimeter to stop our 3 pt game and given we have no inside game, they win.
I have noticed throughout the season that Nutter can NOT make a jumper from inside the arc (4-13FG)!

Hope they correct their problems by Saturday's game. Burno said that he is tired of losing at home and they have to find the formula out of this.

(02-08-2023 09:38 AM)El Duderino Wrote:  Live by the 3, die by the 3! We won't win too many games going 5-19.
I will give Ohio their due, they had a great defensive scheme. Put 3 guys out on the perimeter to stop our 3 pt game and given we have no inside game, they win.
I have noticed throughout the season that Nutter can NOT make a jumper from inside the arc (4-13FG)!

Sometimes you feel like a Nut, sometimes you don't!

(02-08-2023 09:41 AM)Dog Fan Wrote:  Hope they correct their problems by Saturday's game. Burno said that he is tired of losing at home and they have to find the formula out of this.

Burno was blaming missed FT's for the loss!!! We shot 65% We still wouldn't have won making 80%, and we will never make them all. It wasn't FT.
Maybe doing a Monty screaming at your players during the game indicates you've lost confidence in your players and the players lose respect and confidence in the coach!

(02-08-2023 10:08 AM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(02-08-2023 09:38 AM)El Duderino Wrote:  Live by the 3, die by the 3! We won't win too many games going 5-19.
I will give Ohio their due, they had a great defensive scheme. Put 3 guys out on the perimeter to stop our 3 pt game and given we have no inside game, they win.
I have noticed throughout the season that Nutter can NOT make a jumper from inside the arc (4-13FG)!

Sometimes you feel like a Nut, sometimes you don't!

Didja ya think that was witty???

(02-08-2023 10:47 AM)El Duderino Wrote:  

(02-08-2023 10:08 AM)Schaefer Beer Wrote:  

(02-08-2023 09:38 AM)El Duderino Wrote:  Live by the 3, die by the 3! We won't win too many games going 5-19.
I will give Ohio their due, they had a great defensive scheme. Put 3 guys out on the perimeter to stop our 3 pt game and given we have no inside game, they win.
I have noticed throughout the season that Nutter can NOT make a jumper from inside the arc (4-13FG)!

Sometimes you feel like a Nut, sometimes you don't!

Didja ya think that was witty???

Yes i did! In fact i was going to say that he shot and couldn't Nut, but i thought the commercial jingle was more witty.

(02-08-2023 09:38 AM)El Duderino Wrote:  Live by the 3, die by the 3! We won't win too many games going 5-19.
I will give Ohio their due, they had a great defensive scheme. Put 3 guys out on the perimeter to stop our 3 pt game and given we have no inside game, they win.
I have noticed throughout the season that Nutter can NOT make a jumper from inside the arc (4-13FG)!

Sure...but that's not why we lost...not necessarily.

We also missed 3 dunks. That's not only 6 points but on at least one of those misses, Ohio pushed the ball up the floor and got a transition 3 pointer. That's a 5 point swing on one play and one that wouldn't have been there had the dunk been successful because Ohio would have had to take the ball out of bounds and NIU would have been in position to defend.

So...sure. The missed 3s were costly but so was the 6 to 9 points directly attributed to the missed dunks in a game we lost by 6 points and were trailing by 3 with over a minute to play.

When you miss the front end of a 1 and 1 -- it's more than just missing one, in my book.

They looked a little tired. I would maybe work in a day off.

That number four-- Wilson-- was a load. But even so, we were right there.

rest up for the next one, boys!

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